Stafford leaders hope to invest $1.3 million to improve a street in hopes of landing an international shipping firm.
The Stafford County Board of Supervisors approved a grant application submitted to the state’s Transportation Partnership Opportunity Fund to improve Wyche Road.
The improvements are part of the Commonwealth’s incentive proposal to attract German-based mail carrier DHL to expand its presence in the state. The state will match Stafford’s $1.3 million contributions. Stafford is hoping that the combined $3.4 million will be enough to incentivize DHL to build a Stafford facility.
The proposed Stafford facility would cost $72 million provided by DHL and is estimated to employ 577 potential workers. It would be located off Courthouse Raod, near a new diverging diamond interchange at Interstate 95.
The Wyche Road improvements would include milling and overlay of the existing 22 feet of the street and widening the lanes by two feet each, increasing the travel lanes to 13 feet wide. The improvements would also include creating a three-foot-wide paved shoulder on each side of the road and installing new light poles.
The upgrades would accommodate the large amount of commercial truck traffic that would go back and forth from the facility. DHL currently has smaller shipping locations in Richmond and Sterling.
The Opportunity Fund program is administered by the Virginia Department of Transportation. It is used by the governor to provide funds that will focus on the transportation side of significant economic development opportunities to the state.
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To celebrate Air Quality Awareness Week (May 6-10, 2024), Clean Air Partners is working with A Few Cool Hardware Stores to exchange DC, Maryland and Virginia residents’ gas-powered lawnmowers, trimmers, and leaf blowers at select Ace Hardware locations in the region. DMV residents who turn in their gas-powered lawn tools will receive a FREE Ego Power+ replacement including batteries and chargers, while supplies last.
Compared to gas, electric lawn equipment can reduce emissions, noise pollution, health risks and maintenance costs and time. The program aims to remove about a hundred gas-powered polluting tools from yards in the greater Baltimore-Washington region.
The exchanges will take place the weekends of May 17-19, 2024, and May 31-June 2, 2024, at A Few Cool Hardware Stores network of employee-owned Ace Hardware stores in the DC and Baltimore metro areas. To participate and get your free Ego Power+ lawn tool, sign up at https://qrco.de/CAPExchange to reserve your tool and select your trade-in date and location.
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Free Irish Music Concert
Welcoming Spring with music from the Emerald Isle, the New Dominion Choraliers offer a FREE concert on Saturday, April 27 at 7:30 p.m. at the First United Presbyterian Church of Dale City.
Joined by Legacy Brass and members of Old
Spring Ceili: An Irish Music Festival
The New Dominion Choraliers of Prince William County and McGrath Morgan Academy of Irish Dance invite you to join them at our Ceili, a grand celebration of Irish music and dance.
A gathering of performance groups throughout Prince William County
